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Do artists tend to focus more on the look of their signature models or on tonal quality?

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Do artists tend to focus more on the look of their signature models or on tonal quality?

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DB: There are different ways to work the collaboration depending on the artist. We can readily cut and paste together a guitar with various features they like or we can work with them to come up with something unique. With Sting, we’ve worked on a small parlor style guitar called a Terz. We’ll do a tour of Martin later and you’ll see these little guitar bodies roaming around as they go through the various building and finishing processes [see top photo]. They’re great sounding guitars and Sting used one on the song Deadman’s Rope from his album Sacred Love. As far as tone, we can pretty much figure out how a guitar will sound based on the design, the parts, and the woods we use. Different shapes and sizes will yield different sounds. Different woods can make the sound crisp or warm and thicken or lighten the tone. Our goal is to get the optimal sound out of all guitars we build, so yes, tone is a definite area that we work at with all of our guitars. We also decide about electronics an

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